re: Does anyone here play PC primarily?(Posted by Tom288 on 11/13/12 at 12:55 pm to LSU Coyote)

quote:I really only play PC games, for me I enjoy the picture quality/graphics on PC. Also, you can play with an XBox gamepad on almost every game out there.

I'm the opposite. While I certainly love the quality and graphics you can find in a PC title, it's the old fashioned keyboard and mouse that keeps me from consoles. I honestly don't get it when people play PC games with console controls. I always want to yell, "frick the thumbs man, don't you know you can use your whole hands and arms with a trusty keyboard and mouse!?"

re: Does anyone here play PC primarily?(Posted by LSU Coyote on 11/13/12 at 12:58 pm to Tom288)

quote:I'm the opposite. While I certainly love the quality and graphics you can find in a PC title, it's the old fashioned keyboard and mouse that keeps me from consoles. I honestly don't get it when people play PC games with console controls. I always want to yell, "frick the thumbs man, don't you know you can use your whole hands and arms with a trusty keyboard and mouse!?"

Techpowerup did a pretty good test/review that summed it up. They tested FPS on the most popular 3.0 cards in 3.0 slots and in 2.0 slots. The FPS was negligible and inconsistent between the two. Sometimes, the card showed a 1fps gain in a 2.0 slot. They even tested some in PCIe 1.1, as well as at 4x, 8x, and 16x, and there was negligible difference. .1 to 1fps or so... Standard deviation would have to be higher than that, so it just shows that PCIe 3.0 means jack shite. It's like connecting a mechanical hard drive to a SATA 3 port.

quote:Sometimes, the card showed a 1fps gain in a 2.0 slot. They even tested some in PCIe 1.1, as well as at 4x, 8x, and 16x, and there was negligible difference. .1 to 1fps or so... Standard deviation would have to be higher than that, so it just shows that PCIe 3.0 means jack shite. It's like connecting a mechanical hard drive to a SATA 3 port.

That type of bandwidth really applies to work over time. Like workstations/folders/bionics.

Things like that. Systems that run 24/7 doing calculations is were you will see the increase in performance.

As for a bottleneck or bandwidth being restricted, I think the PCIe 3.0 is and will be best used by 512bit GPUs.

None the less, like you said.. there is really no difference in performance between the 2.

EDT: Tried logging in and couldnt.. tried to reset my password but says the email is not registered. IDK what email I registered under. Has to be RationalThinking or something of that nature. That was my online handle back then.